The Purpose Of Art Is To Create

If You Give A Meaning To Certain Things In My Paintings It May Be Very True, But It Is Not My Idea To Give This Meaning. What Ideas And Conclusions You Have Got I Obtained Too, But Instinctively, Unconsciously. I Make The Painting For The Painting. I Paint The Objects For What They Are.

I've Reached The Moment Where The Movement Of My Thought Interests Me More Than The Thought Itself.

I Who Have Been Involved With All Styles Of Painting Can Assure You That The Only Things That Fluctuate Are The Waves Of Fashion Which Carry The Snobs And Speculators; The Number Of True Connoisseurs Remains More Or Less The Same.

Basically The French Are All Peasants.

There Are Only Two Types Of Women - Goddesses And Doormats.